Easter Week – 25: Tuesday After Easter – The Light of Easter 1

By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. … And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. … For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. …Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

1Co 6:14, 1Co 15:17; 2Co 4:6, Ge 1:3, Ep 5:8-11; 1Jh 1:5-7; 1Jh 2:8-11